Blog of website & interface designer, Darran Morris.

I wanted something a bit cooler for my iPhone wallpaper so ran this up this morning. I love dark backgrounds on the phone with just minimal little details. I also have this thing for skulls. Look, I don’t know why, they just look cool.

So here you go, might as well share this with you lot. 3G and Retina display sizes included. Enjoy :)

Got some squeaky clean new design work up on app-bits.com, go over there and take a look. Been about time I did some updates around here. Each one was a really interesting project, here’s a little more info on some of them.

Pocket Wine has a really clever way of introducing new wines by categorising them in terms of style, then bringing you down a road of discovery. I worked closely with Mike from Wine Paradigm (I designed the site too incidentally!), to design a user interface that represented the information hierarchy in an intuitive way. The colour coding and icon system, keep you in touch with where you are consistently throughout the app.

Mobimaths is an initiative between the NDRC, Trinity College Dublin and GoKnow Inc. It is a series of mobile apps that help school kids get to grips with basic mathematical concepts in an interactive way. Each app was designed to look like a funky and new device which the students use to complete small projects such as measuring angles, distance, working with fractions and more.

Daily Word Search is a cool little word search game that has new word searches every day. Great little app and put together really well.

Update: With a bit of Google’s help, I found the guy’s email. He says he just commissioned the site, and he got screwed by an outsourcing company. He removed the sites in minutes.

Update 2: Out of consideration I have removed links to their site and their name from this article. Benefit of the doubt and all that.

Well, I suppose its inevitable. And hilarious really.

My mobile app icon and interface design site app-bits.com just got completely and utterly plagarised. Not only did they completely rob the entire look of the site, they also completely ripped off the copy. The only thing changed was to add their logo, change app-bits to their name. The cherry on top? They had the where with all to update the Copyright message to have their name!

The email address on the site doesn’t work, the Whois doesn’t contain any information for me, (except for the name Name Removed) to get in touch with them, so I just have to call them out.

Dude, if you are reading this blog post and own this site, take it down. What a RIP.

VLAB is an immersive 3-D environment created by projecting onto four screens, everything given that extra dimension through the use of a trendy pair of spectacles.

The homepage takes those awesome red-green cardboard glasses we probably all used to varying effect back in the day. The textures give a tech feel to the site and of course plenty of whitespace to give that airy feeling.

As usual, the site uses the latest and greatest Modx CMS which allows @fredherrera in IADT to keep everything up to date.

Sometimes you just have to spend your long weekend working on something because there is no other time to do it! Hence was begotten the new, rather slight, Poly website. Awesome.

Its been difficult these days to find time to put up my new work. I realised that one of the problems was that I had to write three paragraphs on the job I had just done, and I just couldn’t find the time!

Hope you like the new site. Let me know if any creases still need ironing.

Finished this insane but awesome site for a bunch of mad people early this year. If ever a country needed to take a lighter look at life, its Ireland at the moment and these guys definitely have their finger on the pulse, creating new hilarious satire every week.

It was an incredibly interesting site to work on. I had never worked on a magazine or newspaper type site before and they have a unique set of challenges for the designer. I will write a bit more on how we worked to produce the site later on. Right now have the head stuck in several other big projects!